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This weekend was the Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ festival, another annual tradition that has gained traction as more of our college friends have moved East. It's held down in National Harbor, which isn't the easiest place in the world to get to. We have to take taxis from the closest metro stop, but we usually have enough people that this isn't too much of a hardship.

The festival is always a lot of fun, especially since the VIP tickets we buy mean we get in two hours before the general public. There are a ton of bourbons and beers to taste, and the ticket gets you unlimited tastings. It always turns into a rather boozy day, full of sampling so many things it's impossible to keep track of them all.

There's also a special VIP area that has the higher end bourbons and beers. They also have some free food samples over there, though none of it was really worth standing in line for this year. The cheese was mediocre and the bacon was flat-out bad.

We stayed at the festival for over four hours, which is the longest we've ever lasted. We must be learning to pace ourselves as we grow older. After we finished drinking, it was back to Zach and Sarah's for tacos and horse races. And, yes, more beer. Then it was time to metro home, which was involved some fun people watching. Everyone was coming home from the Pride Parade, so there were rainbows and beads and glitter everywhere.

On Sunday Kevin and I went over to the community's annual used book sale. The selection was a bit picked over, since most people had gone on Friday and Saturday. We still managed to find some cool things, including the sequel to one of my favorite books as a child, a book I had despaired of ever finding. And since it was the tail end of the sale, prices had been slashed. We took home eight books for only $5, and we could have gotten way more for the same price if we'd found anything else we wanted.